Since the influential Stern Review on the economics of climate change (Stern 2006), many have seen avoiding deforestation of tropical forests as arguably the fastest way and cheaper to mitigate climate change. The idea is that the richest countries - which were the largest emitters of greenhouse ...
Biofuels are receiving growing negative attention. Direct and/or indirect land-use changes that result from their cultivation can cause emissions due to carbon losses in soils and biomass and could negate any eventual greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction benefit. This paper evaluates the implications o...
Achten, W.M.J.
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Verchot, Louis V.
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[Implications of biodiesel-induced land-use changes for CO2 emissions: case studies in Tropical America, Africa, and Southeast Asia]
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Implications of biodiesel-induced land-use changes for CO2 emissions: case studies in Tropical America, Africa, and Southeast Asia
In the last decades, strategies have been evaluated to reduce rumen methane (CH4) production by supplementing tropical forages rich in secondary compounds; however, most of these beneficial effects need to be validated in terms of their persistence over time. The aim of this study was to assess C...
Molina-Botero, Isabel Cristina
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Montoya-Flores, M.D.
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Zavala-Escalante, L.M
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Barahona Rosales, Rolando
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Arango, Jacobo
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Ku-Vera, Juan Carlos
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[Effects of long-term diet supplementation with Gliricidia sepium foliage mixed with Enterolobium cyclocarpum pods on enteric methane, apparent digestibility, and rumen microbial population in crossbred heifers]
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Effects of long-term diet supplementation with Gliricidia sepium foliage mixed with Enterolobium cyclocarpum pods on enteric methane, apparent digestibility, and rumen microbial population in crossbred heifers
This study aims to explain effects of soil textural class, topography, land use, and land use history on soil greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes in the Lake Victoria region. We measured GHG fluxes from intact soil cores collected in Rakai, Uganda, an area characterized by low‐input smallholder (<2 ha) f...
Wanyama, Ibrahim
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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Pelster, David E.
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Wanyama, George N.
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Atzberger, Clement
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Asten, Piet J.A. van
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
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[Land Use, Land Use History, and Soil Type Affect Soil Greenhouse Gas Fluxes From Agricultural Landscapes of the East African Highlands]
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Land Use, Land Use History, and Soil Type Affect Soil Greenhouse Gas Fluxes From Agricultural Landscapes of the East African Highlands
Accelerated soil-nitrifier activity and rapid nitrification are the cause of declining nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) and enhanced nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from farming. Biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) is the ability of certain plant roots to suppress soil-nitrifier activity through...
Subbaraoa, Guntur V.
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Arango, Jacobo
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Masahiro, Kishii
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Hooper, A.M.
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Yoshihashi, Tadashi
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Ando, Y.
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Nakahara, Kazuhiko
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Deshpande, Santosh
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Ortiz Monasterio, Ivan
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Ishitani, Manabu
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Peters, Michael
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Chirinda, Ngonidzashe
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Lata, Jean-Christophe
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Gerard, Bruno G.
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Tobita, Satoshi
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Rao, Idupulapati M.
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Braun, Hans J.
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Kommerell, Victor
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Tohme, Joseph M.
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Iwanaga, Masaru
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[Genetic mitigation strategies to tackle agricultural GHG emissions: The case for biological nitrification inhibition technology]
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Genetic mitigation strategies to tackle agricultural GHG emissions: The case for biological nitrification inhibition technology
Castro-Nuñez, Augusto
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Mertz, Ole
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Buritica Casanova, Alexander
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Sosa, Chrystian C.
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Lee, Stephanie T.
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[Land related grievances shape tropical forest-cover in areas affected by armed-conflict]
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Land related grievances shape tropical forest-cover in areas affected by armed-conflict
The IPCC has compiled the best available scientific methods into published guidelines for
estimating greenhouse gas emissions and emission removals from the land-use sector. In order
to evaluate existing GHG quantification tools to comprehensively quantify GHG emissions
and removals in smallholde...
Seebauer, M
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[Whole farm quantification of GHG emissions within smallholder farms in developing countries]
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Whole farm quantification of GHG emissions within smallholder farms in developing countries
Cattle ranching in Brazil is a key driver of deforestation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Brazilian government plans to reduce national GHG emissions by at least 36%, partly by reducing emissions in the livestock sector through strategies such as intensification, pasture improvement, and...
Bogaerts, Meghan
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Cirhigiri, Lora
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Robinson, Ian
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Rodkin, Mikaela
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Hajjar, Reem
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Costa Junior, Ciniro
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Newton, Peter
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[Climate change mitigation through intensified pasture management: Estimating greenhouse gas emissions on cattle farms in the Brazilian Amazon]
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Climate change mitigation through intensified pasture management: Estimating greenhouse gas emissions on cattle farms in the Brazilian Amazon
Few field studies examine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from African agricultural systems resulting in high uncertainty for national inventories. We provide here the most comprehensive study in Africa to date, examining annual CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions from 59 plots, across different vegetation...
Pelster, David E.
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Mango, Joash
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Saiz, G.
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Díaz Pinés, Eugenio
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Baldi, G.
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Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
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[Smallholder African farms in western Kenya have limited greenhouse gas fluxes]
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Smallholder African farms in western Kenya have limited greenhouse gas fluxes
This study provides estimates of the net GHG mitigation potential of a selected range of management practices in the world’s native and cultivated grazing lands. The Century and Daycent models are used to calculate the changes in soil carbon stocks, soil N2O emissions, and forage removals by rumi...
Henderson, Benjamin B.
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Gerber, Pierre J.
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Hilinski, T.E.
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Falcucci, A.
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Ojima, D.S.
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Salvatore, M.
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Conant, Richard T.
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[Greenhouse gas mitigation potential of the world’s grazing lands: Modeling soil carbon and nitrogen fluxes of mitigation practices]
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Greenhouse gas mitigation potential of the world’s grazing lands: Modeling soil carbon and nitrogen fluxes of mitigation practices